Lot N. 104
Shells and Sea Urchins (1789)
three watercolor etchings, with passe-partout, traces of foxing
passe-partout 41x34 cm (3)
Robert Benard Direxit.
From Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature (1782-1832), Histoire Naturelle (revised and expanded version of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie) published in 1789 by the French publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke, plates 190 and 210